Sony sends out DMCA Takedown Notices!

[Guild McCommunist]

*stuff kinda disorganized probably by error*

Christ, stop crying. A PS2 is what, $60 used? Buy one and play your PS2 games on it. It's not that hard. I'd be fine skipping out on PS2 compatibility for a cheaper PS3 model. I buy a PS3 to play PS3 games, not to play PS2 games.

I mean, I think Sony should just give up instead of sending out this "black suit brigade" of lawyers, but stop getting a fucking hemorrhoid over it. Sony's a company that wants to protect its assets. Saying "DOWN WITH SONY FOR TRYING TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM ILLEGITIMATELY MODIFYING THEIR SHIT!" is stupid. Outrage over their wave of lawsuits might be a little found, but it's just in their attempt to prevent hackers from keeping up with them. Not exactly the most ethical way to do it, but it's a way.

Just stop crying, I'm getting sick of all this "DOWN WITH SONY" and "I PIRATE THEIR GAMES JUST TO STICK IT TO THE MAN." Yeah, sure you do. You pirate games because they're free, not to make some statement. Every pirate pirates their games because they're free.

QUOTE(stanleyopar2000 @ Jan 28 2011, 05:07 PM) at least the 360 can play Xbox 1 games right???

some, not all

well...at least Microsoft didn't completely remove backwards compatibility on purpose...there is a hardware issue....I would like to THiNK that anyway...............

Could you at least log this bullshit conspiracy theory right between "The moon landing never happened!" and "The US government was behind 9/11!"?

 

[stanleyopar2000]

...i don't need a stupid blue ray disc player, all my movies i watch are 700mb and packed in 52 rars...

damn...P2P user?...I go to movie streaming websites and the quality when I download them isn't HALF that good


LOL - right now I'm watching Ashens on youtube...then I see a PS3 Ad by Sony...oh the irony.

 

[431unknown]

at least the 360 can play Xbox 1 games right???

some, not all

well...at least Microsoft didn't completely remove backwards compatibility on purpose...there is a hardware issue....I would like to THiNK that anyway...............

They don't exactly support it anymore either. Like was said earlier tho better some than none at all.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

...everyone is entitled to their own opinion...to each is their own...need I continue?

if I personally hate Sony..that is my choice

 

[rave420]

...i don't need a stupid blue ray disc player, all my movies i watch are 700mb and packed in 52 rars...

damn...P2P user?...I go to movie streaming websites and the quality when I download them isn't HALF that good


LOL - right now I'm watching Ashens on youtube...then I see a PS3 Ad by Sony...oh the irony.

nah, fuck p2p.
There are "people"(or rather, basement dwellers) who have access to FTP distros, flashed and filled with the newest of releases all the time.

FXP comunities are a fine thing.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

...i don't need a stupid blue ray disc player, all my movies i watch are 700mb and packed in 52 rars...

damn...P2P user?...I go to movie streaming websites and the quality when I download them isn't HALF that good


LOL - right now I'm watching Ashens on youtube...then I see a PS3 Ad by Sony...oh the irony.

nah, fuck p2p.
There are "people"(or rather, basement dwellers) who have access to FTP distros, flashed and filled with the newest of releases all the time.

FXP comunities are a fine thing.

damnnnn.....*does research on the internet*

 

[MelodieOctavia]

...i don't need a stupid blue ray disc player, all my movies i watch are 700mb and packed in 52 rars...

damn...P2P user?...I go to movie streaming websites and the quality when I download them isn't HALF that good


LOL - right now I'm watching Ashens on youtube...then I see a PS3 Ad by Sony...oh the irony.

nah, fuck p2p.
There are "people"(or rather, basement dwellers) who have access to FTP distros, flashed and filled with the newest of releases all the time.

FXP comunities are a fine thing.

haha that reminds me when I used a NASA FTP server to host episodes of Lost.

 

[Midna]

Sony, you can't take something off the internet.

You can try, but it won't work.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Sony, you can't take something off the internet.

You can try, but it won't work.

Especially at this point. Too little too late.

 

[cobleman]

Sony are the 1's who started all this infringeing copyright back in the 70's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of...ty_Studios,_Inc.
They didnt think in the future it would bite them in the arse

 

[Coto]

A lawsuit won´t beat human intelligence.

 

[testatura]

i don't need a stupid blue ray disc player, all my movies i watch are 700mb and packed in 52 rars.

fcking true xcept japanese horrors that come in1,4gb cheers dude!

edit : sorry on offtopic but it made me laugh!

 

[stanleyopar2000]

i don't need a stupid blue ray disc player, all my movies i watch are 700mb and packed in 52 rars.

fcking true xcept japanese horrors that come in1,4gb cheers dude!

edit : sorry on offtopic but it made me laugh!

Off Topic - I found a scene website that has so many links for stuff that I thought was only P2P...not FTP though

On Topic - I like it how they win this lawsuit...and then shortly afterward they release a firmware update that does nothing but kill homebrew...

it's like Sony personally "nailing the coffin" for PS3 Hacking with their own ego as the hammer

they need to be punished!

EDIT - Lot's of lurkers....fewer posters!

 

[ChuckBartowski]

front page post says DCMA. fail.
Also, im fairly certain sony is trying to start a war. Cant wait to see the outcome.

 

[xist]

This topic is effectively saying wanting to earn money is bad. How many people here have decided that they're going to work for free in future?

Capitalism is bad? Sony are a company who employ lots of people. Whilst the gaming side is a relatively minor subsidiary, they have every right to defend their interests, and make whatever choices they want about there hardware and firmware updates.

 

[BedtimeGuy]

i agree with xist. however that's not to say that sony hasn't done MANY loathsome things. like removing the ability to ply PS2 games froma console that is PLENTY powerfull enouh to play them, they had to do extra work to make the product WORSE for the customer (called an anti-feature) it's stuff like tat that is inexcusable. also the fact that they are actually going after specific developers... its sickening.

tl;dr they can do whatever the hell they want with their firmwares, thats fine, but anti-features and lawsuits on specific people are essentially useless and unnecessarily hostile tactics.

 

[Sloshy]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't DMCA takedowns only work for things that are copyrighted? Something as small as the keys released, under current US copyright law, should be exempt from copyright law for being a "short phrase"... right?

Source: http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/25/you-cann...yright-a-tweet/

 

[shakirmoledina]

its not like they have been entirely stopped, someone else can come as a dummy and present whatever they make. True they are in trouble but its gonna take a lot more to stop hackers at the moment (when the iron is hot ie hacking is open) like nintendo tried to take down so many rom sites but i dont think it has affected the scene greatly (infact it seems nds piracy is always on a rise)
then again as said above, there are other ways to distribute and talk eg. IRC

for sloshy, maybe its relevant

It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself.

from wikipedia

 

[djgarf]

this is just a petty attempt for sony to not loose face
they know they fucked up and they fucked up big time
all this is going to do is motivate the hacking crews even more just to stick it to sony over and over again

 

[Fireballo]

Sony is just going to have to learn the hard way. They are they're throwing money away but if they prevail don't think that Nintendo and Microsoft aren't watching closely to see what the outcome is. I think Nintendo is laughing at Sony right now but is sony is successful you can be sure a crackdown buy Nintendo will be coming. Lets all hope that Sonys efforts fall flat.